Added value of motion capture technology for occupational health and safety innovations

Abstract

Ergonomic principles in production assembly and manufacturing operations have become an essential part of comprehensive health and safety innovations. We aim to provide new insights into occupational health and safety innovations and how they utilise biomechanical methods and cutting-edge motion capture technology by assessing movements at a workplace. The practical goal is to quantify a connection between work exposure and ergonomic risk measures to determine biomechanical risk factors of diseases or health-related disorders objectively. The target group consisted of 62 factory employees working in manufacturing (26 participants on 12 devices) or assembly areas (36 participants on 9 devices). Body posture, body parts position, movements, energy cost and workloads were assessed using an inertial motion capture (MC) system. MC technology accurately assesses the operator’s movements. The proposed methodology could complement ergonomic procedures in the design of workstations, which is the added value of the motion capture technology for occupational health and safety innovations.

Impact of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on food security: bibliometric analysis and empirical evidence

“…Moreover, in recent years, the level of economic security of the country and its components (in particular, food security) increasingly depends on the processes of digitalization and technological development (Botos et al, 2020;Chee and Karhulahti, 2020;Lopez and Alcaide, 2020;Nagy et al, 2020;Sawangchai et al, 2020;Winiarski et al, 2021;Yarovenko et al, 2021). In particular, the ability to order food delivery and remote catering made it possible to mitigate severe threats to food security during the acute phase of the COVID-19 pandemic (Castillo-Vergara et al, 2021;Jasińska-Biliczak, 2022).…”